Jeannenot Bernard grew up in the city Medoc from six to twenty-one years. His father worked for the estate that housed people Thionvillois Sollac and would become Batigère after fusion. Returning from military service, Bernard married his first wife, 10 rue Christophe Colomb, in the building known as the banana, avenue de Douai. If it were there all these years, it would blow today as a relocation because this building will be refurbished and several stairwells, which number 10, will be demolished.
But the family had already moved to No. 16, Bernard remembers that he had his feet in plaster and is Firek and Fichback gentlemen who had helped him move from one cage to another. People knew each other well because everyone was working on Sollac: there was a real solidarity between them. At the time, it was enough to reach the bottom of the building and slamming his balls against each other to see other boulistes reapply in less than five minutes.
In 1985, Bernard divorce and left the studio 16 for a street thistle. In 1990 he moved to the Cofimec Yutz but when 95, his son, who kept the family apartment, he pointed out that there is an open slot on his back bearing and Bernard Street Columbus. Her daughter just moved over to 2004, the whole family, that is to say children and grandchildren of the children of Bernard and Marie-Paule, his new companion will live together, open and on two floors. Resettlement and rehabilitation of the banana is well advanced but Bernard finds that some things work in reverse. For example, in the stairwell of 16 has long been known that the entrance of the building will be reversed and F5 on the ground floor will lose a piece: yet one family who wanted an F5 was relocated to this apartment without knowing it would become an F4 because of work. The landlord has also raised the possibility of moving from an F5 to F3 for now Bernard and Marie-Paule are alone. But not only children and grandchildren are still at home but also Bernard thinks that the law on the relocation takes into account the actual surface of the apartments in these cases and their apartment is a small F5. At worst they would have offered him an F3 in the same area and in the neighborhood. It would be really hard to adjust but after all, Bernard has done in his life. He learned to accept things as they are fighting against the disease of alcoholism.
Bernard began work at fourteen in 1959 Hayange hot on the train. Rectifier, bridge operator lathe operator, he did everything. But with the passing years, something kept him from higher positions despite the quality of his work. In 1989, he decided to make a rehab. He fled almost literally Cabri Thanksgiving in the afternoon he did not want people to be lectured him. He will redo them upside down and understand what brought him there. If it has not been drinking before his military service, the majority at 21 years old at that time, will gradually give him the opportunity to drink: alcohol is synonymous with friendliness and strength and we drink more and more without noticing. But what the cure is going to make the discovery, forty five years, he is dyslexic. He remembers what was said about him at school: "Bernard is a lazy, it works only when it wants ... "the first lines of his duties were flawless but the last he lost his concentration and the number of burst errors. With a father riding on spelling and worn on the beautiful ... can not talk back what we did because we confuse the B and P is a real handicap. But parents raise their children the same way as everyone has their weaknesses and strengths. The result is the first take that much trouble the second and the third suffers. It is the root of the disease of alcoholism: being misunderstood and undervalued to begin with. What Bernard has also included that we can not ask his parents what they have received themselves. During the last war, the father of Bernard Thionville had fled before the arrival of the Germans. He did not really have a choice: his parents were divorced, a rarity at the time and his mother did not want him and neither was the new wife of his father. A story of orphan with living parents.
He eked out a living by doing odd jobs before landing on the side of Beauvais and meet his future wife, also a refugee. The treatment enabled him to understand his parents and to choose. Because the disease of alcoholism is the only one the patient can decide to heal. Just stop drinking.
But abstinence is a very demanding path. The person who was framed for Free Life sober for twenty six years when, to celebrate a joyous event it was allowed a glass of champagne: Relapse is terrible. Alcoholic disease leaves the body in a substance similar to morphine: THP, tetrahydro papavéroline which gradually takes the place of natural endorphins responsible for relieving our pain. In case of resumption of alcohol consumption, alcoholic patients lose Control and THP will push the push to drink more mechanical and repetitive. It must therefore be wary of calls "tömel" and know what you want because, for Bernard, relapse feels and if it starts to come when we settled its accounts with the past, "is that we thirst. "
It is an actor of his recovery and when Bernard will speak to students on behalf of the Association of Free Life, is to tell them that we must not lose freedom to drink for pleasure. This does not prohibit them to drink but to empower them to manage their consumption in moderation so they can drink for pleasure all their lives and not being coerced by the disease.
Alcohol and youth is a concern but we must not forget that often takes the place of what is missing and if today some young people in the news by their abuse of alcohol, c is mainly to attract attention to their discomfort. With absent parents because they both work, how to take a place in this society without structure. The result depends on the group to which it will own and codes that define individual behavior. Sometimes it's hierarchy, violence, booze. Bernard has recently been called into a school because of six young girls dead drunk in the morning in class: they told him, "good grades bad grades at home parents do not know the difference." Alcoholic disease born of a sense of underestimation of self.
Association Support alcoholics, Free Life, offers precisely the freedom of everyone to take responsibility and be valued by its action. Bernard was responsible for two years and then left hand to someone else. Some cures are by obligations of justice, to bring peace in the family to get by, we must understand that alcohol is a disease and therefore we can heal. The Association is a place where people can talk about anything and everything and their problem if they want, freely and without trial.
FREE LIFE / Permanence in Thionville: 5 rue the ride on Tuesday and Wednesday from 17h to 19h Friday from 10am to 12pm
4th Monday of each month meeting room of the ride open to all. Permanence in
Yutz to call on Monday from 14h to 16h to Cofimec, 2 rue Brittany and health center, rue des Nations, from 17h to 19h.
